On Thursday, September 12th, the St. Louis innovation community will gather together for Kinesis at Innovation Hall for a one-night fundraiser and celebration of the five years of impact Venture Café St. Louis makes 365 days a year.

Kinesis mixes the key elements of Venture Café with everything that makes a party memorable including meeting entrepreneurs and leaders in St. Louis, viewing startup demos, technology-based art installations, cuisine from 23 City Blocks and The Chocolate Pig, custom cocktails, mocktails and local brews. The fundraiser also includes a music showcase featuring breakout St. Louis artists like Tonina, who was recently signed to Empire Records.

Tickets are available at: vcstl.co/kinesis2019

“Venture Café St. Louis has a lot to celebrate and Kinesis is our opportunity to do so with our community,” said Tyler Mathews, Executive Director. “Since our launch in 2014, more than 38,000 people have attended our various events, over 3,000 hours of free educational talks given, and nearly $365,000 worth of donated space has been provided.” Mathews continues, “But, the real celebration will focus on what is being created by entrepreneurs in our spaces.”

Demos from agtech, gaming, and tech startups will be on display as will technology-driven art installations made possible by Barrett Berrara Projects. The event is made possible by Boeing HorizonX, and Wexford Science + Technology, the company responsible for many of the buildings in the Cortex district.

Kinesis will include a 20 minute program and the rest of the night will be fresh and innovative fun.

Guests can look forward to:

Thousands of Reasons to Support this Fundraiser

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Here’s Our Reasons

We’ve teamed up with @VentureCafeSTL to secure discounted tickets for #Kinesis2019 fundraiser. Without VentureCafe the startup innovation community would just be many elite fiefdoms. They provide St. Louis “the commons” and a model for self organizing. That’s worth supporting.

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019

Through @VentureCafeSTL all of us get access to buildings that would be beyond our reach -for many of us- in the early stages of our companies. If you have the sense of a buzz in St. Louis, that’s because they provide the space and the events to experience that in person.

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019

Not to mention @VentureCafeSTL now offers the only free coworking space in St. Louis: at Innovation Hall. It beats working from a cafe any day of the week.

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019

Through their Thursday gathering, @VentureCafeSTL offers a totally open opportunity for anyone to submit a seminar or workshop idea to present something that matters to you. And not just the opportunity, a huge audience too – for free.

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019

There’s plenty of places where you can host an event for free, but you have to drive your own audience to attend. Meaning there’s a tendency to attract sympathetic audiences that are already rooting for you. @VentureCafeSTL offers exactly the opposite, which is immensely valuable

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019

At EQ we use @VentureCafeSTL’s event programming opportunities every month to connect directly with readers. Plus second monthly event to beta-test training courses. The audience help us try new things, gain confidence and identify what’s not working too. Give it a go yourself!

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019

If any of this resonates with you, let’s help @VentureCafeSTL keep growing int o new spaces and places, cos “The Commons” is what we need most. Use the code EQSTL to get 50% of #kinesis2019 tix here and help them hit their fundraising targets! https://t.co/n6oYgauLxw

— Entrepreneur Quarterly (@eqstl) September 5, 2019